SparkR Error in sparkR.init(master=“local”) in RStudio

Question

I have installed the SparkR package from Spark distribution into the R library. I can call the following command and it seems to work properly: library(SparkR)<

Answer 1

I got the exact same error message. My case is a little bit different, as in I have run SparkR in RStudio successfully before. But after few days, it doesn't work anymore.

By looking at the conversion between Shivaram Venkataraman and Prakash Ponshankaarchinnusamy, I realized this may have something to do with running permission.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8603

So what I did, which eventually works, is that, I unzip the spark tar.gz to my C:/ folder again (previously it is kept in D:/ drive) AND SparkR WORKS!!!

screenshot of working RStudio